You’ve described commercial animation and illustration, which certainly takes skill and perhaps talents one is born with. I’m talking about art! Creation witho

You’ve described commercial animation and illustration, which certainly takes skill and perhaps talents one is born with. I’m talking about art! Creation without deadlines, without the money men to distort the underlying creative act based on commercial and financial needs, etc. I realize that technology puts creative people out of work but it doesn’t stop creative people from making art. Have people been complaining about the decline of music studios as a laptop, a single microphone and a bedroom have become sufficient to create radio-ready pop music? Almost every studio engineer and record producer that I know have had to find new careers. Some have even given up on art. My brother, after 30+ years of engineering and producing both indie and major label recording artists is now primarily engaged in creating large-scale public pieces that combine sound producing sculptural works with the ambient sounds of the surrounding environment and subsisting entirely off of grant money and the dole!